Albert Murray Quotes

Jazz music, as is also the case with the old down-home spirituals, gospel and jubilee songs, jumps, shouts and moans, is essentially an American vernacular or idiomatic modification of musical conventions imported from Europe, beginning back during the time of the early settlers of the original colonies.

Albert Murray

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: critic
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: May 12, 1916 - August 18, 2013

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MusicTimeBeginningAmericanEarly

I am fascinated by how people eat and what it reveals about them.

Joanne Harris

I AmPeopleEatHowFascinatedThem

You will find my last words in the blue folder.

Max Beerbohm

WordsBlueYouFindWillLast

Every great movie is about the people, even if it's a great popular success like 'Gone With the Wind.' It's really not about the Civil War. It's about Scarlett and Rhett. That's who you go to see. You're not going to root for the North or pull for the South, or, you know, it's the people you remember.

Michael Cimino

SuccessGreatWarPeopleWindYou

I participated in every spring musical my school did while attending: 'Pippin,' 'Little Shop of Horrors,' 'Once on This Island,' and 'Hair.' The great thing about those projects was that I was able to work with my peers who were allowed to work professionally and gained some insight as to what it might be like to work with pros.

Amanda Warren

WorkGreatSchoolSpringHairPeers

I have been trapped in some posh toilets, including those in Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace, and at Victor Spinetti's memorial at St. Paul's Covent Garden, I got locked in the loo.

Ronnie Corbett

GardenTrappedPalaceCastleBeen

Russia is now very far from being a communist country, but when I walked around Moscow, I kept glimpsing these haunting images. There were statues of Lenin and some neon signs of the hammer and sickle. I remembered myself then as a little girl, living under that oppression.

Martina Navratilova

GirlMyselfCountryNowLiving

We have to be ready to share our faith in Christ.

Michelle Carter

FaithReadyShareChristOur

I'm the one who's always kissing all the boys and stuff.

Molly Sims

AlwaysStuffKissing

Don't wait for someone to call you up. You can do anything. You have all the possibilities in the world.

Luka Sulic

WaitWorldSomeonePossibilitiesYou

Americans love our shoes and us Brits love that we can always pick up a bargain when in the US.

Lisa Snowdon

LoveShoesAlwaysUpUsBargain

I have never been opposed to earmarks.

Judd Gregg

NeverBeenOpposed

Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.

Don Marquis

HappinessBetweenUnhappinessPeriods

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